Academic Words in Context
RI.5.4
NameDate
Tick the right meaning.
1.The committee reached a consensus after two hours. What does "consensus" mean here?
- A.a formal complaint
- B.a written record
- C.a sharp disagreement
- D.general agreement among a group
2.Scientists scrutinise the data before publishing it. What does "scrutinise" mean here?
- A.to examine very closely
- B.to throw away
- C.to glance at briefly
- D.to copy out
3.Adverse weather delayed the launch by a week. What does "adverse" mean here?
- A.long expected
- B.completely neutral
- C.helpful and favourable
- D.unfavourable; working against you
4.The old signalling system is now obsolete. What does "obsolete" mean here?
- A.brand new and popular
- B.carefully hidden
- C.very expensive
- D.no longer used because something better exists
5.Her concise summary covered the whole report. What does "concise" mean here?
- A.badly spelled
- B.highly decorated
- C.long and rambling
- D.saying much in few words
6.The arduous climb took them nine hours. What does "arduous" mean here?
- A.requiring no effort
- B.extremely short
- C.very entertaining
- D.needing a lot of hard effort
7.The instruction was ambiguous, so half the class did it differently. What does "ambiguous" mean here?
- A.able to be understood in more than one way
- B.perfectly clear
- C.extremely long
- D.recently written
8.Their hypothesis was that light affected the growth rate. What does "hypothesis" mean here?
- A.a proven fact
- B.an idea put forward to be tested
- C.a type of graph
- D.a formal apology
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